Nehemiah 2:5

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

and I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah to the city of my fathers’ tombs, so that I might build it.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:22

And Joab fell on his face to the earth, and bowed, and blessed the king. And Joab said, Today your servant has known that I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, O king, in that the king has done the word of his servant.

Ezra 5:17

Now, therefore, if it is good to the king, let there be a search made in the king’s treasure house which is there at Babylon, whether if was given from there a decree from Cyrus the king to build this house of God which is at Jerusalem. And let the will of the king concerning this be sent to us.

Nehemiah 2:4

Then the king said to me, For what do you ask? So I prayed to the God of Heaven,

Nehemiah 2:6

And the king said to me, the queen also sitting beside him, Until when shall your journey be? And when will you return? So it pleased the king, and he sent me; and I gave him a time.

Esther 1:19

If it is good to the king, let there be a royal word from him, and let it be written among the laws of Persia and Media so that it shall not pass away, that Vashti not come before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal power to another who is better than she is.

Esther 5:8

if I have found favor in the eyes of the king, and if it is good to the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet which I shall prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow according to the word of the king.

Esther 7:3

And Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and it is good to the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

Esther 8:5

and she said, If it is good to the king, and if I have found favor before him, and the thing is pleasing before the king, and I am good in his eyes, let it be written to cause to bring back the documents (a sly plot by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite) which he wrote to cause to perish the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.

Proverbs 3:4

and you shall find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Daniel 9:25

Know, then, and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem, to Messiah the Ruler, shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. The broad place shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of distress.

Matthew 23:27

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly indeed appear beautiful, but within are full of bones of the dead, and of all uncleanness.

Ruth 2:13

And she said, Let me find grace in your eyes, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken to the heart of your handmaid. And I surely am not as one of your handmaids.